The lights are LEDs and therefore they generate very little warmth. Patient’s will sometimes say that they feel their feet warming up but that is a result of an increase in blood flow through the small blood vessels of the tissues. By being able to get blood to flow through the small blood vessels we are able to get oxygen and nutrients to where the nerve endings are and help to grow them.

The treatments are very comfortable as you will be seated in a nice chair and taken good care of. There are no needles, shock waves or other therapies that can be uncomfortable or painful. We sometimes have to wake patients when their treatment is over.

Treatments are not covered by Blue Cross or Alberta Health Care but if there is a Chiropractic component to your care (each case is different and may or may not depending on your exam findings) then Alberta Health Care will cover $25 per treatment. Each insurance policy is different so we will give you the necessary paperwork for you to check with them.

Each treatment lasts between 25 and 45 minutes depending on the severity of your neuropathy. Care plans are either 7 or 10 treatments, again this depends on the severity of your condition. We prefer to do 3 treatments per week until the completion of your plan but in some cases we can do twice per week.

Yes you can! In fact, for patients who are from out of town, we can provide a tailored treatment plan to be completed in one week.

Between 80 - 85% of our patients show improvement in their pre and post treatment exam scores. During the exam process we do a “Neuro Foot Exam” which gives us a score out of 74; the lower the score the worse your feet are. In most cases we see at least a doubling of the patient’s score. The scores correlate to Mild, Moderate, Severe, or Extreme damage to the nerve endings. For example if your rating is “Severe” we would hope for your feet to improve to a “Mild” by the end of treatment.

Infra-red light is light from outside the visible spectrum of light. You can think of it like a dog whistle that you can’t hear but it still makes a noise for your dog, the light is not visible but it’s still there. These rays of light have been shown to create vasodilation (the opening up of blood vessels) which allows oxygen to be transported to the tissue where damaged nerve endings are.